Question

I’m trying to capture an argument using Mockito. This argument is of type List< MyClass >. But I can’t find the proper syntax to specify it.

I can do this:

ArgumentCaptor< MyClass > captor = 
   ArgumentCaptor.forClass( MyClass.class );

But I don’t get this to compile:

ArgumentCaptor< List<MyClass> > captor = 
   ArgumentCaptor.forClass( List<MyClass>.class );

Is there a way?

Answer 1

Unfortunately no, .class will only return the Class<List> object, where List is a rawtype. The implementation isn’t perfect, and nested type information can’t be obtained using .class. Something like List<Foo>.class is invalid syntax because no such Class<List<Foo>> object exists anywhere.